Thomas Mann

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.